Brill Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher Brill including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

Brill has published 1293826 documents so far, receiving a total of 595997 citations. These numbers are equal to 1.05% and 0.05% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. Brill has a score of 0.46 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by Brill. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, Book, and Monograph a with the total document number of 219919, 251394, 800317, 447, 5402, and 16347 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 17.00%, 19.43%, 61.86%, 0.03%, 0.42%, and 1.26% of the total documents published in Brill so far, respectively. Brill has been an active publisher from 1679-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of Brill over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of Brill documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. Brill has the highest annual number of publications in 2017, with 209426 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2020, with 740 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.01.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of Brill are presented by document type, including Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books.

The number of published documents by Brill are 800317, 251394, 219919, 16347, and 5402 for Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books, respectively. These numbers are equal to 36.61%, 1.59%, 0.24%, 2.81%, and 0.61% of the whole published Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books of Brill are 27547, 57511, 444134, 56096, and 10664, respectively. These numbers are equal to 17.91%, 0.36%, 0.04%, 1.01%, and 0.14% of the citations received by whole Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books by Brill are 39, 46, 143, 67, and 38, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 98, 588, 3201, 760, and 793, respectively.

The g-index value for published Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books by Brill are 9, 11, 20, 13, and 9, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 20, 48, 129, 60, and 60, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books by Brill are 0.034, 0.229, 2.020, 3.432, and 1.974, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 0.070, 1.016, 11.521, 9.566, and 8.593, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books by Brill are 186952, 25202, 7646, 763, and 270, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books are 2017, 2010, 2020, 2020, and 2013, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books published in Brill are 10829, 5085, 12156, 4482, and 851, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books are 2016, 2014, 2011, 2010, and 2010, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books published in Brill are 0.37, 0.31, 2.06, 6.82, and 4.07, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Datasets, Chapters, Journal Articles, Monographs, and Books are 2010, 2014, 2010, 2010, and 2010, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher Brill.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by Brill, are 152, 60, and 40, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by Brill are 21, 12, and 9, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by Brill, are 13024, 4140, 1298, 356, 48, 16, 6, 3, 3, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the Brill top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by Brill is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of Brill based on the number of published documents are Vetus Testamentum, Crustaceana, Mnemosyne, Nuncius, and Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 6542, 6100, 5347, 4964, and 4695, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.506%, 0.471%, 0.413%, 0.384%, and 0.363% of the total documents published by Brill so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of Brill are Behaviour, Crustaceana, Spatial Vision, Nematologica, and Nematology. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 4125, 6100, 649, 2783, and 2090, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.692%, 1.023%, 0.109%, 0.467%, and 0.351% of the total citations received by Brill publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of Brill are Spatial Vision, Behaviour, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, and Nematology. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 40.331, 29.325, 12.233, 9.322, and 8.027, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in Brill. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Brill are human rights, daily news, international law, united states, the dead, dead sea, dead sea scrolls, the united states, the world, and electronic library, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 11401, 9994, 7420, 6368, 4652, 4419, 4365, 4277, 4251, and 3763, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Brill are new species, the world, the social, human rights, the family, international law, the body, the relationship, the impact, and the state, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 2085, 4251, 1600, 11401, 909, 7420, 919, 1579, 1636, and 2154, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Brill are the family, the social, new species, the body, a new species, the common, the subject, the relationship, the impact, and the third, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 4.904, 3.842, 3.680, 3.601, 3.178, 2.855, 2.086, 2.083, 1.979, and 1.964, respectively.